Statistics for Business and Economics

This study guide provides review materials and additional exercises to aid mastery of the material in the text.

Chapters in the study guide offer, for each text chapter:

a Chapter Profile for a quick summary of the chapter's highlights;

Behavioral Objectives, a list of important concepts and techniques;

Multiple-Choice Questions, for drill in statistical theory and methods;

Problems and Problem Sets based on real situations, to test how well students have mastered the text material;

Answers to the case study questions, multiple-choice questions, problems, and problem sets.

In addition, five new full-length cases have been included, to deepen students' understanding of the practical applications of statistics in the real world of business and economics.

The late Edwin Mansfield was for many years a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was an internationally recognized expert in the economics of technology and industrial organization. His numerous texts, all published by W.W. Norton, have sold millions of copies around the world. In 1979, when Sino-American scientific agreements were finally reached, Mansfield was the first American economist to lecture in the People's Republic of China.